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Services for Mrs. Ella
DeLaney Stephens, 83, of Parma, will be held Thursday at 10:30
a.m. at the Parma Peckham-Dakan-Davis Chapel. The Rev.
Wade Wardwell will officiate and interment will be in Parma.
Mrs. Stephens was born Oct. 4, 1876, in Fayette county,
Pa., and moved to Parma in 1907 from Illinois. She was
married to Levi Stephens in 1896 in Cumberland, Md. He
died in Parma in 1940. They had settled in the Apple
Valley school board for many years, and was president of the
first PTA organizations. Mrs. Stephens was a member of
the Kirkpatrick Memorial Presbyterian church.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Reed, Mrs.
Martha Porterfield, Santa Cruz, Calif., and Mrs. Alene
Meltveldt, Boise; two sons, Halton of Beaverton, Ore., and
Ralph Stephens, Seattle, 11 grandchildren and 12
great-grandchildren.